Golden Software Inc. this week has announced the release of Didger 5. Advanced georeferencing, digitizing, and coordinate conversion features have been combined into a low-cost, versatile program ideal as a geoprocessing and data conversion tool for map makers, cartographers, oil and gas professionals, geologists or GIS analysts.

On Tuesday, Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced the M9099 Waveform Creator, a modular software application that supports analog and digital modulation formats, for the Agilent M9381A PXIe Vector Signal Generator. The new software provides a simple, open and expandable environment for development of baseband and vector signals.

A new cloud-based application has been offered by Knovel that integrates technical information from more than 100 engineering publishers and societies with analytical and search tools used by engineers worldwide. Features include intelligent search and flexible architecture for third-party integration.

Cobham Technical Services has released a new version of its Opera electromagnetics and multiphysics design software that enables design engineers to accelerate analysis time. By harnessing the parallel processing capabilities of multi-core processors, computational time is reduced using Opera-3d v16.

Maplesoft has announced a new release of the Maple Global Optimization Toolbox for solving a wide variety of optimization problems in mathematics, engineering and the sciences. For this new release, Maplesoft has partnered with Noesis Solutions to develop a new version of the Maple Global Optimization Toolbox that is powered by Optimus technology, a platform for simulation process integration and design optimization.

Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced a new analysis software suite for the U4611A, U4611B, and U4612A family of USB protocol analyzers. The suite features MegaZoom technology, offering USB device designers insight into their designs’ behavior, and streamlining USB test and validation.

Maplesoft announced a new release of MapleSim, the advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform. With improved performance, more tools for programmatic analysis and model development, and expanded connectivity options, MapleSim 6.1 helps engineers meet and exceed their system-level requirements.

Waters Corp. has announced the expansion of its laboratory informatics offerings, with the addition of Paradigm Scientific Search software, an information access platform. Paradigm Scientific Search provides users in science-based organizations with easy and secure access to information across enterprise-wide data repositories.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. has released the Method Toolbox, the newest addition to its Open Solutions family of open-access software. Method Toolbox is purification method scouting software that assists with method optimization to increase the productivity of pharmaceutical laboratories and contract research organizations.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. introduced the next generation of its Chromeleon chromatography data system (CDS) at Pittcon 2013, which now supports mass spectrometry along with mainstream front-end separation techniques in the same software package.

Comsol has introduced Comsol Multiphysics 4.3a, the latest version of its flagship software for modeling and simulating physics-based systems. The new version introduces LiveLink for Excel to connect multiphysics results with spreadsheets and also further extends the ability of engineers, scientists, and researchers to leverage multiphysics to design and optimize products and technologies anywhere from the desktop to the cloud with new support for cluster computing on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Maplesoft has announced a new release of MapleSim, MapleSim 6, the Modelica-based physical modeling and simulation platform. With tighter Modelica integration, as well as more simulation, analysis, and connectivity capabilities, MapleSim 6 offers more ways for engineers to meet and exceed their system-level requirements.